RiseCast Report Ingestion Policy

RiseCast surfaces fly shop fishing reports to anglers. This page describes exactly how our crawler behaves and how shops can control it.

How RiseCastBot behaves

• User-Agent: RiseCastBot/1.0 (+https://risecast.fish/bot). We never disguise the bot.
• robots.txt is fetched and honored before every crawl (cached for 24 hours). If your robots.txt disallows us, we do not fetch.
• Only configured report pages are fetched, on a low-frequency schedule (typically once or twice per day per shop). We do not spider whole sites.
• Exponential backoff on errors and on any 429 or 5xx response.

What we publish

• Structured summaries only: current conditions, recommended flies, active hatches, and a report date.
• Every report card shows the shop's name and links back to the original report.
• We never republish full report text, images, or anything beyond the structured summary.

Our position: a short structured summary with prominent attribution and a link drives traffic to shops rather than replacing them. If you disagree for your shop, opting out is one email.

Opting out

Email bots@risecast.fish with your shop domain and we will remove your site from the source list and delete stored summaries, normally within 3 business days. A robots.txt disallow for RiseCastBot has the same effect without email.

We prefer partnerships

If you run a shop, we would rather receive your reports directly. An RSS or JSON feed, or a simple email arrangement, gets your reports into RiseCast faster and more accurately than crawling, with the same attribution and link back. Contact partners@risecast.fish.